Landscape Transformation in Tropical Latin America: Assessing Trends and Policy Implications for REDD+

Actors and landscape changes in tropical Latin America : challenges for REDD+ design and implementation

• Five dominant trends are occurring in tropical Latin America with implications for land use change: (1) rapid growth of agribusiness, (2) expansion and modernisation of traditional cattle ranching, (3) slow growth of small-scale agriculture, (4) logging in production forest frontiers and (5) resurgence of traditional agro-extractive economies. • These trends are driven by global markets and n...

Governance, forests and REDD+ in Latin America

REDD+ is a potentially significant financial mechanism for shifting the incentives from deforestation and land use change to forest conservation and sustainability. Even though REDD+ is not primarily a governance instrument, it will affect or be affected by forest governance: it can either improve forest governance or be undermined by its failures. REDD+ depends on good forest governance if it ...

Migration from Latin America to Europe: Trends and Policy Challenges

Indigenous Territories and REDD in Latin America: Opportunity or Threat?

An important proportion of Latin America‘s forests are located in indigenous territories, and indigenous peoples are the beneficiaries of about 85% of the area for which local rights to land and forest have been recognized in Latin America since the 1980s. Nevertheless, many of these areas, whether or not rights have been recognized, are subject to threats from colonists, illegal loggers, minin...

Social Policy in Latin America

This project was conceived more as a collaborative study than as comparative research in the strict sense. The emphasis was on national studies, not on comparison among countries. Given the exploratory nature of the research, each national study had great freedom to define, conceptually and empirically, the "field" of social policy, thus acknowledging the complexity and ubiquity of the concept ...